Vsevolod Pudovkin's Most Important Role In Film
Marius Vermaak
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Editing Giants: Vsevolod Pudovkin
Vsevolod Pudovkin was a Russian filmmaker born on the day of 1893, he fought in WWI for about 4 years then returned home in Russia and started studying Chemistry and Physics. A short while afterwards Pudovkin was inspired by D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916) and started up his own filming career. The year at the point was 1919 and film was still a developing art form.
Pudovkin’s most influential role in film was him theories on editing, Pudovkin helped editors understand that ordering shots into a specific order can generate a desired result on the audience. Pudovkin began to experiment with the theory of juxtaposing images and developed the famous experiment with Ivan Mosjukhin. As Pudovkins studies continued he started making more interesting discoveries in regards of leading the psychological state of the audience. He then developed the 5 Techniques of Relational Editing which are: Contrast, Parallelism, Symbolism, Simultaneity and Leit Motif.
Contrast:
“Contrast forces the viewer to compare two opposing scenes in their mind.” (2013) Pudovkin believed cutting between two different scenarios can highlight the contrast between them. He used a picture showing rich people cutting to poor people to make the difference more apparent. Pudovkin’s famous experiment with Mosjukhin are also …show more content…
Both these shots contain sharks as the main subject therefore that is what grabs our attention and that is how we connect the scenes. It creates an association in the viewers’ mind. Editors also often use parallelism as a creative way in film to cut between different
216 000 33
Editing Giants: Vsevolod Pudovkin
Vsevolod Pudovkin was a Russian filmmaker born on the day of 1893, he fought in WWI for about 4 years then returned home in Russia and started studying Chemistry and Physics. A short while afterwards Pudovkin was inspired by D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916) and started up his own filming career. The year at the point was 1919 and film was still a developing art form.
Pudovkin’s most influential role in film was him theories on editing, Pudovkin helped editors understand that ordering shots into a specific order can generate a desired result on the audience. Pudovkin began to experiment with the theory of juxtaposing images and developed the famous experiment with Ivan Mosjukhin. As Pudovkins studies continued he started making more interesting discoveries in regards of leading the psychological state of the audience. He then developed the 5 Techniques of Relational Editing which are: Contrast, Parallelism, Symbolism, Simultaneity and Leit Motif.
Contrast:
“Contrast forces the viewer to compare two opposing scenes in their mind.” (2013) Pudovkin believed cutting between two different scenarios can highlight the contrast between them. He used a picture showing rich people cutting to poor people to make the difference more apparent. Pudovkin’s famous experiment with Mosjukhin are also …show more content…
Both these shots contain sharks as the main subject therefore that is what grabs our attention and that is how we connect the scenes. It creates an association in the viewers’ mind. Editors also often use parallelism as a creative way in film to cut between different